The Directors and staff of OLT extend their best wishes for the festive season and wish you all a Happy New Year.

Please note: We will be closed between the 20th December 2017 and the 4th January 2018. Email messages sent during thisperiod are unlikely to receive a response until on or after 4th January.

Online training for counsellors and psychotherapists

Welcome to our website. If you are a counsellor or psychotherapist looking to add online counseling skills to your service, you’ve reached the right place.

Our training is designed for qualified counsellors and psychotherapists who are planning to add online counselling to their practice. The training is conducted entirely online so it doesn’t matter where you live. If you have a reliable computer and internet connection, you can join one of our online student groups and learn via email and attend live discussion meetings via our campus website. Our Certificate and Diploma Courses are validated by CPCAB, the Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awards Body.

To find out more about our training courses check out the web pages for the individual course. We offer several workshops and short courses, too (find out more on their web pages).

We believe that first hand experience adds a vital element to our courses and all our tutors are online practitioners themselves.

The course aims to provide a training that will enable online counsellors to offer online supervision. While it will explore models and theories that have been developed for face-to-face supervision, it will also look at the differences between f2f and online supervision. Read more …

Online Counselling: A Handbook for PractitionersGill Jones and Anne Stokes. Published November, 2008 and available from Amazon

Therapy via the internet is a developing field for counsellors. This accessible guide focuses on technological and therapeutic aspects of online work, relevant across all counselling approaches. With practical step-by-step exercises and jargon-free advice, this is an indispensable tool for all practitioners and trainees planning to work online.